Winter sewing projects
Dec. 14th, 2013 12:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asthranI have a few sewing projects planned for the "off season," though since I'm working the Austin Armadillo Christmas Bazaar, I don't actually have any long stretches of downtime, just about 10 days after Christmas.
- New long-sleeved work chemise. Complete. I messed up twice on this one - I cut the front and back as two separate pieces, and the sleeves are finished differently, one in a French seam and the the other is a hand-finished flat felled seam. I forgot the wrist wouldn't fit through the machine. Whoops!
- Cotehardies. In progress. This is a fun one. About two years ago I bought a wool sideless surcoat from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
geminibalance, but I've had nothing to wear with it. In Norway I impulse-bought a Swedish pattern from a small historical pattern company, and I'm using that, so that is all sorts of translation fun. I remembered midway through tracing the pattern that Europeans don't put seam allowance on their patterns, so I was able to add my own imperial seam allowances instead. I'm making a cotton one first, as the psuedo-mock-up. I think I'll be able to make whatever modifications I want on the cotton, so when I break out the silk it'll be perfect! And then I will have warm and cold weather cotehardies! For that year-round SCAing I do. Not.
- I really need a new blue chemise for my hot weather outfit. Unfortunately, I've been really picky about fabric, and don't have anything I'm happy with. So I'll probably need to find any blue gauze at this point. If this happens during Georgia that's ok, but I'd prefer to have it finished for AZ.
- Gothy cosplay - I've been mildly obsessed with the outfits in this music video. While most of them are beyond my meager abilities, I'd really like to make my own version of Nina's final dress (from Royal Black's "Enchanted Gardens" collection). My purple velvet underbust will serve, so that leaves me 2-3 things to do. 1) Lace skirt with bustle. This will be an adventure in draping. 2) Make a version of those sexy, sexy gloves. Mine certainly won't be latex/rubber/PVC/whatever - I picked up a couple pairs of damaged gloves at Dickens on the Strand to experiment with, hopefully successfully. 3) I may try and attach some netting to my bra so it looks more like the Royal Black design. Depends on how inspired I am.
Other than testing a rice bag for drying out my spices, that's probably it for sewing this winter. Then hopefully I can do some piece work in Georgia.
- New long-sleeved work chemise. Complete. I messed up twice on this one - I cut the front and back as two separate pieces, and the sleeves are finished differently, one in a French seam and the the other is a hand-finished flat felled seam. I forgot the wrist wouldn't fit through the machine. Whoops!
- Cotehardies. In progress. This is a fun one. About two years ago I bought a wool sideless surcoat from
geminibalance, but I've had nothing to wear with it. In Norway I impulse-bought a Swedish pattern from a small historical pattern company, and I'm using that, so that is all sorts of translation fun. I remembered midway through tracing the pattern that Europeans don't put seam allowance on their patterns, so I was able to add my own imperial seam allowances instead. I'm making a cotton one first, as the psuedo-mock-up. I think I'll be able to make whatever modifications I want on the cotton, so when I break out the silk it'll be perfect! And then I will have warm and cold weather cotehardies! For that year-round SCAing I do. Not.- I really need a new blue chemise for my hot weather outfit. Unfortunately, I've been really picky about fabric, and don't have anything I'm happy with. So I'll probably need to find any blue gauze at this point. If this happens during Georgia that's ok, but I'd prefer to have it finished for AZ.
- Gothy cosplay - I've been mildly obsessed with the outfits in this music video. While most of them are beyond my meager abilities, I'd really like to make my own version of Nina's final dress (from Royal Black's "Enchanted Gardens" collection). My purple velvet underbust will serve, so that leaves me 2-3 things to do. 1) Lace skirt with bustle. This will be an adventure in draping. 2) Make a version of those sexy, sexy gloves. Mine certainly won't be latex/rubber/PVC/whatever - I picked up a couple pairs of damaged gloves at Dickens on the Strand to experiment with, hopefully successfully. 3) I may try and attach some netting to my bra so it looks more like the Royal Black design. Depends on how inspired I am.
Other than testing a rice bag for drying out my spices, that's probably it for sewing this winter. Then hopefully I can do some piece work in Georgia.
